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Visiting Artist Program

All Visual Arts majors participate in the Visiting Artist Program each semester, which provides an opportunity for exposure to a variety of art and design professionals from around the country. This program features a variety of thought-provoking speakers each year, plus opportunities to attend several gallery openings each semester. The speakers provide information about the many directions, options and possibilities inherent in art and design from professionals who are working regionally, nationally and internationally.

Past VAP Speakers have included:
Anthony Bannon - Director, George Eastman House
Chaz Maviyane-Davies - Designer
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis - Animators
James Gurney - Illustrator
Jess Hamlin - Historian - PBS Series, Art: 21
Nina Hole - Sculptor
Keith Howard - Printmaker
Eduardo Kac - Interactive Artist
Julian Montague - Designer
Arnold Newman - Photographer
Rocky Schenck - Photographer

Printable Current VAP Schedule

RAC Art Gallery Fall 2008-Spring 2009

Old Goat/Spring Chicken - A Faculty Exhibition
September 11 - October 18, 2009
Opening Reception on Friday, September 11 from 7-9PM

CONTINUUM: The MacKrell Archive Project by Gerald Mead
October 30 - December 6, 2009
Opening Reception on Friday, October 30 from 7-9PM

Images of War: featuring "World in a Jar" by Robert Hirsch
February 5 - 26, 2010
Opening Reception on Friday, February 5 from 7-9PM

German Artist Exhibition
March 5 - April 7, 2010
Opening Reception on Friday, March 5 from 7-9PM

Senior Showcase I
April 16 - 22, 2010
Opening Reception on Friday, April 16 from 7-9PM

Senior Showcase II
April 30 - May 6, 2010
Opening Reception on Friday, April 30 from 7-9PM